ARTH284 - REVOLUTION TO REALISM

This course surveys the major trends in European art of the tumultuous decades stretching from French Revolution of 1789 to the rise of realism in the mid-nineteenth century. Starting with Jacques-Louis Davis revolutionary history paintings, we will study Napoleonic representations of empire, Goya's imagery of violence, romantic representations of madness and desire, Friedrich'snationalist landscapes, as well as the politicized realism of Courbet. some of the themes that will be addressed are: the revolutionary hero, the birth of the public museum, the anxious masculinity of